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The wild world of insects
Potter wasps are solitary, and feed on flower nectar, but they make mud nests for their eggs and stock them…
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Australia Day, Valla
I handed out the trophy and gave a small speech saying that on this day of all days, we should…
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Birthday Poem
Everything you can see has a name - and owns two names here, apart from the binomial, the Gumbaynggirr .…
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Birthday, Valla
I grab the champagne from the fridge, to celebrate for the second day, this time with the full moon on the…
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Dam building, Kalena and Jeremy, Bullimah Beach, Bouddi NP, NSW
I’m not sure why kids build dams . . .
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From Sydney back to the Bush, January 2016
. . . low tide, the mud-bed of Cockle Creek is animated by crabs who are also in possession of…
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Our first Red-necked Wallaby with joey in the garden
We are used to Eastern Greys and Swamp Wallabies but these are our first Red-necked Wallabies.
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Gardens, attention to detail, Sawfly larvae
Gardens reveal humans as relentless, egotistical, restless, imaginative animals.
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Three pieces on summer, ABC Open
My thoughts wander (like a tonight’s drunks) around this morning’s tickertape, ‘worries grow over strongest El Niño’,
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Raining Cats and Dogs
The 3.3 million domestic cats in Australia kill about 343 million birds and animals each year.
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